For Authors

Scientific Sports is open to submissions at any time. There are no submission fees and no article processing charges. If your work bears on a scientific sport, we want to read it.

What we publish

• Article — original research, peer reviewed. No length limit, though most run 2,000–6,000 words.
• Review — a survey of existing work on a topic, peer reviewed.
• Technical Note — a short, focused report: a measurement, an apparatus, a method. Peer reviewed. Typically under 2,000 words.
• Meeting Report — an account of a tournament, workshop or conference. Editor reviewed.
• Letter — a comment on work published in this journal. Editor reviewed; the authors of the original work are given the opportunity to reply.

How to submit

Send your manuscript by e-mail to editor@iktta.org with the subject line Submission: [your title]. Include in the body of the message the title, all authors with affiliations, the corresponding author's e-mail address, and the article type you are submitting under.

We acknowledge every submission within seven days. If you have not heard from us in that time, the message did not arrive — please send it again.

Manuscript format

• Plain text, Markdown or HTML. We do not accept word processor files.
• Mathematics in MathML, or in LaTeX notation that we will convert.
• Figures as SVG where possible; PNG is also accepted. Send figures as separate files, not embedded in the text, and refer to them in the manuscript as Figure 1, Figure 2 and so on.
• References in APA style, with a DOI or URL wherever one exists.
• An abstract of 100–250 words, and up to six keywords.

Review process

The editor first checks that the submission is in scope and formally complete. Articles, reviews and technical notes then go to at least one external referee under a single-anonymised model. We aim to return a first decision within eight weeks. Decisions are accept, minor revision, major revision, or reject, and every decision is accompanied by the referee comments in full.

Rights and licence

Authors retain copyright in their work. By publishing with us you agree to release the article under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which lets anyone reuse it with attribution. You are free to deposit the published version in any repository, immediately and without embargo.

Preprints and prior publication

Posting a preprint does not preclude submission. We do not consider work that has already been published in a peer-reviewed venue, but an expanded version of a conference abstract or meeting report is welcome — tell us about the earlier version when you submit.

Correspondence

Questions about scope, format or anything else: editor@iktta.org